Immigrants gaining jobs over native US workers

United States, 1st November: Immigrants in the US are getting new jobs while its the native-born US workers who are loosing work, findings of the latest report reveal.

Foreigners in the US have gained around 656,000 new jobs from June 200( the official period when the recession ended) till June 2010 while the total jobs lost by native-Americans comes to 1.2 million, the report by the Pew Hispanic Center maintains.

And this has resulted in a substantial rise in the rate of unemployment for native-born Americans from 9.2 percent to 9.7 percent from June 2009 till June 2010. On the other hand, the rate of joblessness for immigrant workers in the US went down from 9.3 percent to 8.7 percent during the same period.

So, there is a simple and clear indication that the economic recovery is working in a different way for foreign-born workers and native-born American, states associate director of Pew, Rakesh Kochhar, adding that this has resulted in a discouragement among the native-born US workers in their search for jobs in the US.  

The US currently has far greater number of working-age immigrants (those aged 16 years or above)getting jobs in the recent times as compared to the previous year. As per the study findings, the number of native-born American workers having jobs declined from 59.3 percent in June 2009 to 58.3 percent in June 2010; while the number of immigrant workers with jobs in the US went up to 62.3 percent(in June 2010) from 61.7 percent in June 2009.

The economic recovery in the US after the slowdown caused by recession is proving beneficial for the immigrants in the US, states executive director of Casa de Maryland, Mr. Gustavo Torres who also heads the immigrant employment center situated close to Washington, D.C.

A total of 19,000 immigrants got new jobs in the US in the 12 months ending on June 2010 while the number of job placements by Casa was 16,000 in the previous year.   

According to Mr. Kochhar, sending money to their native country is an integral part of their working in the US, hence, they are more open to undertaking different jobs in the US.

The study has been the result of the collaborative efforts of the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.